A half-witted person, a “Bess of Bedlam” (q.v.).
“[None] can say Foster’s wronged him of a penny, or gave short measure to a child or a cousin Betsy.”—Mrs. Gaskell.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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